1. The senior most Deputy Governor in the Reserve Bank, R Gandhi, has been given the charge of monetary policy department, including forecasting and modeling unit, which was earlier under new Governor Urjit Patel.

2. Former Indian women’s team captain Anjum Chopra has been awarded a honorary life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) along with former men’s team players Zaheer Khan and Virender Sehwag. She is the first Indian woman cricketer to get the prestigious life membership of MCC.

3. American President Barack Obama has nominated a Pakistani-American ‘Abid Riaz Qureshi’ on the federal judiciary bench for the US District Court of Columbia. Qureshi is the first Muslim to be nominated on the federal judiciary bench for the US District Court of Columbia.

4. Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu awarded the Best Film award to the Indian film ‘Thithi’ at the 1st BRICS Film Festival. The director of this Kannada film is Raam Reddy.